Education

As an independent air and water hygiene specialist Airmec can provide essential services to support schools, colleges, and universities to provide a safe working and teaching environment with the flexibility you need to work around your calendar. We will build cost-effective plans to support work with single and multi-site organisations.

Our comprehensive range of essential ventilation system, air quality and water hygiene services to ensure staff and students are not exposed to health and safety risks associated with air and waterborne diseases. We will also test the effectiveness of local exhaust ventilation in laboratories, and remedy any defects.

You can be sure that our risk assessors and technicians will have Enhanced DBS clearance before entering your premises, and they will be familiar with safeguarding and confidentiality requirements.

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To find out more about the knowledge and skills we can apply to enable you to maintain a safe environment for teaching and learning, please explore the links below:

Teenage school children

As part of our ventilation hygiene services, we regularly inspect and clean extract systems within commercial kitchens. We also have trained, competent surveyors able to examine and test any local exhaust ventilation (LEV) systems that are installed in workshops or laboratories.

We can offer your facilities management team the following services:
- Ventilation system hygiene surveys and risk assessments
- Fire damper inspection and testing
- Fire damper replacement and remedial works
- Air Handling Unit (AHU) maintenance
- Ventilation duct cleaning
- Kitchen extract monitoring and cleaning
- Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) examination and testing
Where indoor air needs to be assessed for comfort or for health and safety reasons one of our surveyors can conduct an Indoor Air Quality survey. We can also outline how to protect staff and student well-being from exposure to dust, fumes, or noise by undertaking an Occupational Hygiene Assessment.

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Educational facilities are often significant water users with a range of water systems that need to be regularly checked. We offer Legionella risk assessments and planned water hygiene monitoring services, including water quality sampling, at many educational establishments – from primary and senior schools through to large multi-campus universities.
- Legionella risk assessments
- Water hygiene monitoring services
- Water quality sampling and analysis
- System cleans and disinfections
- Water treatment services
Should any remedial work arise from a water safety risk assessment we offer a complete remedial service for your hot and cold water system.

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We aim to provide a complete fire damper safety service. We inspect, clean, test and, unusually, have a dedicated team to undertake essential and emergency remedial work on fire dampers as a turnkey service.

Our services include:
- Surveys and updating asset registers
- Inspection and testing
- Advising on improving access for cleaning and inspection
- Detailed reporting
- Emergency remedial work
Our dedicated remedial team can also make recommendations on ways to modify ductwork and on the installation of access doors so that any fire dampers that have not previously been tested can be reached, and future inspections can be conducted more efficiently and cost-effectively.

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